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8 Ways To General Health And Fitness

By: famoustrainer It never fails but as soon as I wrote all my Weight Loss,
Weight Gain, Fitness and Nutrition type of tips I had a few left
over that couldn't really be placed into these categories.

But as you will see they are right on the money for your
general health and fitness and can be used in your everyday
activities.

Lets take a peek:

What Is A Healthy Diet - A healthy diet satisfies two criteria: It
contains enough fibre and a number of micronutrients
including vitamins and minerals to maintain a healthy body. It
is balanced in forms of fat, protein, and carbohydrates and
micronutrients.

Don't Train With The Flu - This is one of the biggest exercise
blunders you can make A number of temperature raising
viruses, including the flu can affect the muscles.

People often forget that the heart is also a muscle and can be
weakened by the flu virus. Normally our hearts can cope with
the strain of this, but exercising on top of an already
weakened heart is potentially fatal. After a bout of the flu, you
should wait at least 48 hours before exercising again.

Cool Down - When you do a strenuous workout the blood
vessels in your muscles dilate to deliver more blood for the
muscles to operate. The skin vessels also dilate to increase
the heat loss from your body, which is why you get flushed
after exercise.

If you don't give your blood and skin vessels enough time to
recover, and jump straight under hot water your skin vessels
will dilate even further. Then your heart goes into overdrive
trying to pump blood throughout the body.

Ultimately you might notice symptoms like faintness,
dizziness or at worst, you could even collapse.

Don't Eat Before Exercising - Always try to eat two or three
hours before your exercise and not after that. If you do eat
before exercise you can develop what is known as "dumping
syndrome' where the blood supply that normally goes to your
muscles during exercise is diverted to your gut.

This means that you're not getting enough blood to your
muscles, which can cause you to become lethargic and faint.

Try to Give Up Smoking - the best and easiest way to give up
smoking is to replace it with another habit. Unfortunately,
quitting has been associated with weight gain if you replace
your cigarette habit with a candy or snack food habit.

So replace the smoking with the habit of exercise!! Nothing
tough or painful at first and build up to it. A five minute walk
instead of a cigarette and aim to build it up slowly and easily.

Before, you will be fitter, you will be healthier and your body
will be more you realize tight and toned.

You will feel better in the morning, your breath will be worth
being near again and fingernails, hair and skin will take on a
much younger fresher look!! Of the people who die from lung
cancer, 95% of them smoke.

Protein Power - Carbohydrates supply the sort of calories
easily burned during cardiovascular exercise, but protein
plays an important part in building muscle mass - or rather in
not storing food as fat. "This is largely because the bulk of
protein that is eaten will be used to build muscle".

Further the average male will lose 500gms of muscle - not fat
- every year once he stops regular exercise. While older men
and women are usually touted as the beneficiaries of strength
training so to are the young.

Planned Exercise - I suggest you start with 100 minutes per
week of mildly puffing exercise be it 2x50 mins, 3x35 mins,
4x25 mins, 5x20 mins all of which produce the same results.

Mix up your aerobic activities in the gym; use the treadmill,
bike, climber or any other training gear available to you.

Keep A Training Log - Keep a training log for all your fitness
requirements, keeping account of the reps you are using, how
many sets, what weights you are using and also the date,
time and where the workout took place is imperative for
gauging your day to day progress.

Also recording all cardio- vascular activities is just as
important.

In conclusion, these general health and fitness might have
been left to last but the are still right up there as far as your
health and fitness is concerned.

Article Source: http://www.lifeweightloss.com

Gary Matthews is the author of the popular fitness eBooks Maximum Weight Loss and Maximum Weight Gain. Please visit www.maximumfitness.com right now for your 'free' weight loss or muscle building e-courses.

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